Drone-type air mobility vehicle and method for controlling same
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorJin Hyuck Heo
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Abstract
A drone-type air mobility vehicle includes a body, a plurality of rotors, and a plurality of rotor arms configured to connect the plurality of rotors to the body. The drone-type air mobility vehicle further includes: a plurality of air flaps provided in the rotor arms, respectively, and configured to be deployed downwards with the respect to the respective rotor arms by gas injected into the air flaps; and a controller configured to determine whether the rotors are abnormal, based on a yaw rate of the mobility vehicle and state information of the rotors, and the controller configured to determine whether to deploy the air flaps according to a result of the determination on whether the rotors are abnormal.
Claims15
A drone-type air mobility vehicle comprising a body, a plurality of rotors, and a plurality of rotor arms configured to connect the plurality of rotors to the body, the drone-type air mobility vehicle comprising:
- a plurality of air flaps respectively provided in the rotor arms and configured to be deployed downwards with respect to the respective rotor arms by gas injected into the air flaps;
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- a controller configured to determine whether the rotors are abnormal, based on a yaw rate of the mobility vehicle and state information of the rotors, and the controller configured to determine whether to deploy the air flaps according to a result of the determination on whether the rotors are abnormal.
A method for controlling a drone-type air mobility vehicle comprising a body, a plurality of rotors, and a plurality of rotor arms configured to connect the plurality of rotors to the body, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of air flaps respectively provided in the rotor arms and configured to be deployed downwards with respect to the respective rotor arms by gas injected into the air flaps;
- determining, by a controller, whether to deploy the air flaps;
- when the controller determines to deploy the air flaps, primarily deploying specific air flaps among the plurality of air flaps, based on a rotation direction of the air mobility vehicle;
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- when the controller determines that a rotational speed of the air mobility vehicle needs to be further decelerated, additionally deploying the remaining air flaps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.